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v My 8, mm,- wmw C. L. KELLER SHINGLE Filed Oct 6 1919 CHARLES I. Km, OI WYOMING, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE RICHARDSON comm, OF IDGKLAND, OHIO, A. CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Application filed October 6, 1919. Serial No. 328,627.

is a full, clear, and exact description, rcf-' erence being had to the drawings forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to shingle strips ordinarily made up of flexible composition material and to a strip shingle of novel shape produced by a novelprocess of cuttin ne of the objects of my invention is to provide a strip shingle which will give a panel or wide space effect when laid as distinguished from an ordinary shingle, and another object is the formation of a shingle which can be laid with a variety of efi'ects.

These objects and other advantages to be noted, I accomplish. by that certain method of cutting with the resulting novel strip shingles and roofing efl'ects obtained thereby to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a plan view showing a sheet of roofing in which my novel shingles are blanked out. 1

Figure 2 is a like view showing another blank.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a section of a roof'sh'owing the use of my new strip shingle.

Figure 4 shows another form of roofing.

Figure 5 shows an additional blank.

By reference to the blanked out roofing sheet, it will be noted that I form a series of strips 1 (Figure 1) forming roofing units, each of which is alike and has inter-spaced extensions 2, and spaces or depressions 3,

on one edge of the strip and extensions 4 and depressions 5 along the opposite edge thereof.

The manner in which the completed strips will'be used depends upon the position of the ends thereof, since the units must be jointed at the spaces, and not at the projections, in courses on a roof. Thus if the strip is to be employed with narrower extensions than spaces, the cuts formin the ends of the units will be formed along t e lines 6, while if the extensions are to be wider than the sp the ends will be along the lines 7.

As many shingle-like extensions will be left between the walls of a space or depression.

The roof shown in Figure 4 is made with the portions 2, 3, exposed and that of Figure 3 is made with the portions 4, 5, exposed. Upon examination of the roof drawings it will be apparent that when the shingles produced by my method of cutting are laid, with the extensions of succeeding courses staggered, that the extensions of one course will over-lie the meeting lines of the shingle sections or unit strips of the preceding course. It will also be apparent that considering any one strip, there is a back out or depression 5 of equal size to every extension 2, that lies opposite or opposed to the extension, and the same way for the depressions, which are opposed by backward extensions.

The result of this last is that, the shingle strips must be made wide enough so that the back cuts of each course will not become exposed, by the space or depression in the next course to it, butthat the backward extensions of each course are in line with the back cuts of the preceding course thereby supplying extra material to the unexposed surface of the roof at the point that it is needed.

It will be readily apparent that the directions to the user in laying the strips resulting from this'method of cutting will include instructions to employ the strips in such a way that the proper edge is exposed to view, in order to insure that the line of division between the units or pieces of each course will be at a depression instead of at an extension.

It is also apparent that I obtain a stri shingle which will give paneled or wi e spaced eilect to a roof wlth exposures of T-shape 'or inverted T-sha e in a manner which produced all identica strips. So far as I am advised, this has been considered impossible in the past and further has been considered entirely impractical in rectangular shaped shingles having a back out and in strip shingles providing square or diamond shaped exposures.

The modification of my invention lies in the provision of strips which are half pro vided with narrow extensions and half wide Ill) - sions 12 for the strips'a, and the depressions 13, for the strips b, in such a way that the depressions of any one section are of the approximate width and lie directly opposed to the extensions of the exposed edge, while the extensions between the back-cut de ressions are of the approximate width 0 the depressions of the exposed edge. The depth of the back cuts or length of the extensions is not so great as the length or depth of the cuts in the exposed edge, however, which results in the formation of rights and lefts or diiferent sections a and b, as pointed out above.

The ends of the units a and b, as at 14:, for the strips a, and 15 for the strips 6, result in each strip having its exposed edge bisected through a depression and not an extension.

When so formed the separate pieces will be capable of being laid on a roof in a great variety of ways, since the extensions of each course will be bound to overlie the lines of separation between the shingle strips of the succeeding course.

In another form of my invention, as shown in Figure 5, the units have a single projection for exposure, as would result when equidistant or equal parallel lines 15, are cut through the material and the sections are made up into individual shingles by the cross cuts 16 (in the example shown). Theroof laid with the individual shingles resultin from this cut will have the effect of a raised tile in its appearance and the back cuts will effect a saving of material as in my other forms.

In all of the forms one essential is the fact that the back-cuts or unexposed cuts of the shingles orstrips shingles are made .so that the depressions thereof will be coalignment with the depressions of the exposed edge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A roofing formed from shingle strips comprising body portions with the side edges as distinguished from the ends cut so as to form alternate extensions, and interlying spaces of a character to leave exposed a panel-like portion of roofin' beneath, said extensions and spaces ieing formed so that the extensions are of different width from the spaces, and the one side edge of the strip having projections opposite the spaces on the other side edge and of equalsize thereto, and said strips laid in overlapping courses so that the extensions are in staggered relation with each other.

2. A roofing formed from shingle strips comprising body portions with the side edges as distinguished from the ends out so as to form alternate extensions, and interlying spaces of a character to leave exposed a panel-like portion of roofing beneath, said extensions and spaces being formed so that the extensions are of different width from the spaces, and the one side edge of the strip having projections opposite the spaces on the other side ed e and of; equal size thereto, and said strips aid in overlapping courses so that the extensions are in sta gered relation with each other, and with till ing the same side edges exposed, but with the strips in selected courses having difierent side edges exposed from other course- CHARLES L. KELLER.

e strips in any one course hav. 

